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[New Post] ARC Review: I Thought of You by Jewel E. Ann

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Title: I Thought of You

Author: Jewel E. Ann

Page count: 335

Published: May 2nd, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

I wanted to conquer the world.

She wanted to gaze at the stars.

It’s been twelve years since I last saw Scottie Rucker. A grim prognosis has upended my life, and no amount of my hard-earned money can fix it. So, after leaving a note on the nightstand, I search for my first love—I search for life.

When I find her in Austin, working at a quaint general store and living in an RV behind it, those twelve years vanish. She’s exactly how I remember her.

Scottie thinks our reunion is a small-world coincidence, and I’m not ready to tell her the truth. After we rekindle our friendship, she convinces me to work part-time at the store while she pursues her budding relationship with Koen, a welder and the grandson of a customer.

Scottie’s ability to live in the moment is exactly what I need. But how do I convince her new boyfriend that I’m not his competition? And what happens if my heart changes its mind?

Price leaves his life and his job in search of the girl that he had met and spent a crazy summer with. Scottie is someone that likes to live in the moment she’s an absolute delight to get to know. She has an incredible summer with Price, twelve years later when he shows up out of now where, she conflicted on how to feel. Price and Scottie have such a love that just transcends through time, it’s filled with raw emotion that will make you want to cuddle a pillow and cry then the next few pages I found my self laughing. This is one of my top 2024 reads.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Unstoppable Love by Stacey Lynn

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Title: Unstoppable Love

Author: Stacey Lynn

Page count: 331

Published: May 14th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

A sizzling, small town, enemies to lovers, sports standalone romance from bestselling author, Stacey Lynn.Ava Decker has hated me for just as many years as I’ve spent loving her.I made a mistake pretending our night together never happened. For pretending I forgot. But we were young and I was getting ready to leave for college with big plans for the future.I had no plans to return to our small town in Colorado anytime soon and Ava never wanted to leave. That alone was enough to keep me away from her while we both grew up.And yet, I never forgot about her and what she means to me.Now eight years later, imagine my surprise, when I come home and find Sleeping Beauty asleep on my couch, thinking I wouldn’t be back home from my off-season vacation for a few weeks.As a professional football player, I know all about grabbing an opportunity and running with it. This is my chance to finally convince the girl of my dreams to stay and to tell her the truth about that fateful night years ago.But getting Ava Decker to not only forgive me but to give me another chance comes with a whole new set of plays I’m not used to.I’ve got all the time in the world to convince her. I’m committed to showing to her that she is my endgame. I let her go once before and I’ll stop at nothing to prove to her that my love for her is real and an unstoppable force.** Readers should be mindful that Unstoppable Love contains multiple descriptive scenes of attempted assault that may be sensitive and triggering to some.

This is my favourite book, Ava and Cam have a fantastic connection, Cam is seriously nice and feel bad got what happened between him and Ava and wants to make a mend’s but on the other hand Ava doesn’t want to get her heart broken again. How will they be able to navigate with all the things that have happened? Will Cam be able to take down all the walls that she had up for so long? This was a small town romance that takes you on a rollercoaster but when you get to the end of the ride your wanting to go around again because of how much fun it was.

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[New Post] ARC Review: A Vengeful Occasion by Kristy Marie

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Title: A Vengeful Occasion

Author: Kristy Marie

Page count: 250

Published: April 26th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Urban legend.Ruthless Attorney.Hateful Billionaire.

Tobias Hale is surrounded by rumors, most of which are true. Underneath that three-piece suit is a cold, callous man who rules the courtroom with an iron tongue. Judges hate him with the same passion he hates me.He hasn’t always been that way, though.We were once star-crossed lovers who sat by the water’s edge—me wearing his jacket and him dreaming about a future far away from my family—a place where I wasn’t American royalty, only his queen.I never thought I would see him again.Years later, a chance encounter brings us face to face.The sweet and compassionate man I once knew is long gone. The man before me now is a vicious and calculated billionaire.Once upon a time, he was my fairytale prince.Now, he has become the legend everyone knows as Tennyson—my husband, my killer.A Vengeful Occasion is a second chance, romantic suspence standalone.

I got to say that Kristy has something special for making books that are laugh out loud, have amazing sexual tension and chemistry its fantastic. Spencer and Tobias have an incredibly heartbreaking and beautiful love story of second chances. Spencer can finally get away from abusive husband and ends up meeting her first husband Tobias. Spencer may feel guilty, with how the things ended Tobias ends up being pissed at her and only has one thing in mind… revenge. It’s only a matter of time before they can hold back any longer and finally give into their feelings and have the relationship they were truly meant to be.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Moments for You by Carrie Ann Ryan

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Title: Moments for You

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan

Page count: 298

Published: April 22nd, 2024

Publisher: Literally Yours PR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Two widows. One wedding dress. And a promise of forever in the next installment of the Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.
A wedding dress is meant to be worn only once.
When a stranger finds herself in need of a miracle at the last minute, I do the unthinkable: I offer mine to her.
The same one I wore down the aisle for my late husband.
Now I’m invited to the wedding and finding myself wondering why I shut myself away from the world for so long.
I’m only meant to be at the Wilder Retreat for a single day except I go home with not only a job offer, but the promise of something more.
Ridge Wilder is hiding secrets of his own. And the undeniable chemistry between us burns before we even contemplate taking that first step.
Only I’ve already had my happy ever after. I never planned on finding another.
And Ridge is even far more broken than I am—with a past that might come back to haunt us both.

Aurora is a pastry chef loses her husband, and everything falls apart for her. Ridge had lost his girlfriend and unborn child that he has been keeping a secret. Aurora and Ridge have great chemistry and banter, but they were able to go though something as tragic as they did, were able to find one another and love again with a roller coaster that you don’t want to miss.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Lawless God by Lola King

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Title: Lawless God

Author: Lola King

Page count: 556

Published: April 4th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: BDSM Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

I sent a psychopath to prison. Now he’s out and back for revenge.
They call me Kayla ‘The Ruthless’ King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings’ Crew.

Because of the sacrifices I’ve made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me.

In our town, you can only thrive if you’re the worst of the worst. But that all ended when the psychopath I put away returned with a target on my back.

If I’m The Ruthless King, Nathan White is The Lawless God. The biggest and baddest of them all. He’s heartless and cruel, and everyone is safer out of his way. Including me.

When he comes back to the North Shore with only my name on his lips, I know my days are numbered. Or so I thought until he took me.

Nathan doesn’t want me dead. He wants me to suffer. And what better way than to keep me captive as he destroys my crew and legacy.

I’m fighting a war that I’m unprepared for, and in the midst of chaos, my feelings blur with the need for survival. My secrets aren’t safe anymore, and neither is my heart.

You know what they say? Never fall in love with the enemy.

Too late for that.

This book is a standalone in a series of interconnected standalones. It can be read on its own.

I can’t believe that this series is over, this was such a fantastic series. I will be reading this again in the future. There is just so much that I want to say about this series and everyone, but this is about Kayla and Nate. The banter and chemistry between Nate and Kayla were top notch. I enjoyed how they pushed one another’s buttons but at the same time they were able to grow as a couple. The moment that Nate was in the series book I was instantly intrigued by him and I’m happy that he was the last because this was my favourite in the series. We do get to see everyone for one last hurrah which is great. I will say this book has a lot of triggers so be sure to check them before reading.

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